Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Scott Koranda <>]

Hi David,

Thanks for the note.

>
> The other thing I've noticed when pushing tons of changes into Google is the
> connections can be unstable, almost as if they just down servers at random.
> Furthermore, you really can't trust what google has to say about a
> provisioning status for about 24 hours.  Most of the time it's accurate, but
> they definitely seem to be working on an eventually-consistent model. If you
> happen to crash & re-connect to a node that hasn't gotten all your updates
> your app will quickly get confused.  What we eventually wound up doing is
> maintaining state on our end as to whether G returned a success code or not
> for the user.  If we got success, we would just trust it & not re-verify
> that account for 24 hours.  Now, they have deprecated the provisioning API
> and I have yet to try their new Directory API, so I hope that one behaves
> better.
>

Thanks, this information is quite helpful. I expect I will be in touch
again soon.

We do expect to use the new Directory API and will be happy to report
back to the group.

Cheers,

Scott